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Imaginative Play |
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This brief introduction is intended to raise your awareness of the importance of imaginative play and describe some of the considerations that we use to select or toy inventory at Dandelion Summers.
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Play is becoming endangered. |
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Our technological modern life can easily leave little time for childhood imaginative play and can also stunt our children’s ability to author their own creative play. Joan Almon, Chair of the Waldorf Kindergarten Association of North America, stated in the foreword to “Children at Play,” by Heidi Britz-Crecelius, “Modern children are accustomed to manufactured toys with defined purposes, television and films that present someone else’s imagination, computers that use other people’s programs, and classes in dance or sports in which someone instructs them in what to do.” As parents we must strive to nurture our children’s ability to engage in creative, imaginative play.
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Why is play important? |
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Child directed imaginative play fosters and builds creativity. Creativity will serve your children their whole lives. Creativity allows us to see new solutions to problems, see the “light at the end of the tunnel”, envision new inventions and the list goes on. We give our children the ability to create their own lives when we allow them as children to create their own play.
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Toys that encourage imaginative play: |
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- open-ended, can be played with in a variety of different ways.
- are simple, yet attractive in their details, allowing the child’s imagination to complete the details to suit their mood or play.
- let the child determine the play (they are not modeled after the latest cartoon or movie).
- are made of natural materials.
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